How many Letters are in our Names?

We have been learning about collecting and sorting information.  Today we found out in E6 how many letters are in our names.  Mrs Cooper showed us how to display what we found out on a pictograph.

A pictograph is a fun way to show the information we collected. 

We found out that 6 children have 5 letters in their name.

We found out that 1 child  has only 3 letters in their name.

We found out that 1 child has 9 letters in their name! 
Most children in E6 have 5 or 6 letters in their name.

We had a go at printing our names.  We tried our very best to write lovely letter shapes.  We are learning to hold the pencil correctly, and to form the letters correctly.  It is really tricky but we love a challenge.  
Next Mrs Graham wrote the letters in our name on coloured card.  We had to cut and glue the letters down in the correct order.  Have a look at our wonderful work!

How many letters are in our name? - slideshow

This is my Family

We have been thinking about what a group is, and what sorts of groups we belong to.

We have decided that when we belong to a group we have something in common with other people in that group.

In E6 we found out that their are lots of different groups we all belong to.   

Some of us go to ballet classes - we are a group of dancers.

Some of us play Rugby - we belong to a rugby team.

Some of us go to swimming lessons - we are a group of swimmers.

In E6 we all belong to families.  Our family groups are all different, but we all have something in common.  We all love and care about the people in our families.  Our families are special and unique - just like us!

We had a go at writing our family group name (our sir name).  We had to count how many people are in our family.

Take a look at our special family portraits.  We are amazing artists in E6!

Our class is growing!

E6 is growing again!  

3 more children have started school! 

Here they are showing us their 'welcome to school' certificates.

Happy School Days

Natey, Raphy and Ashton !

... it's great to have you with us in E6!

The Big Numbers Song

Earlier in the term Mrs Cooper showed us a you tube clip called "The Big Numbers Song".  We love it so much that we play it most days now in E6!  It is helping us to read and say the numbers correctly.  

Sometimes we get muddled with the teen numbers but this song is great fun, and helping us learn at the same time!

You can find the link to this song on our numeracy links page, or you can watch it right here...

(In E6 we really really love the BIG numbers!)

Rohan's Trees

Rohan spent the day at home on Friday because something exciting was happening at his house and he wanted to watch.

Rohan’s family had to get some special men to come to his house and cut down the trees in his yard.  The trees were called Silverbirches.
  

Rohan’s Mummy emailed us some photos that she took.  Mrs Graham helped Rohan to share them with us for news.  Rohan said the trees were SO SO SO tall! We were all SO amazed when we saw how how tall the trees were!!

Rohan’s Mum was sad to see the beautiful trees cut down but they were very very old and very very tall!  The trees were also allergenic and that wasn’t helping Rohan or his baby sister feel very happy!

Rohan is helping the workers tidy up!

Thanks Rohan for sharing your exciting news from home with us!  If you have any interesting photographs or news at home you might like to share it with us too!

Athletics

Today was a special day.  We went to the senior kids field to do some Athletics with all the junior children.  Lots of the Mums and Dads, and Grandmas and Grandpas came to watch us.
Watch our slideshow and see what amazing athletes we are!  Watch out Nick Willis and Valerie Adams ...here come E6!

Jolly Juniors Athletics - slideshows

What we think we did well:

We joined in.  

We gave our very best.  

We had loads of fun.  

We gave it a go, even when we had tired legs!

What we liked the best:

Kingston liked the vortex and the gumboot throw the best.

Jeven liked doing the quoits throw.

Mrs Graham liked the potato and spoon races.

Jerry liked the high jump.

Kaeyura liked the hurdles relay.

What we found challenging:

Balancing the potato on the spoon.

Bouncing on the moonhopper on the concrete. 

Running right around the school without stopping.

Reaching up and turning our bodies to jump on the high jump pad.

Using the ipads

 Today we went to see E7.   We used the ipads together.  

We had lots of fun with our buddy discovering a new app called Reading Raven.   We had to match alphabet letters to alphabet sounds, and practice tracing over letters correctly.  




Mrs Graham and Miss Pauley thought we were all amazing at taking turns, listening to each other and helping each other when it got tricky.  

 

Tino Pai E6 and E7!!  What super star learning and super star team work. We had a fabulous learning session together!

Reading Raven is a real favourite of ours!

Parents and Whanau...

If you have an ipad you might like to purchase the reading raven app.  It would be  great for your child to use as part of their home learning!

Buddy Time

Today we met our buddy class for the first time.  Our buddy class is A2.  They are in Year 4 and their teacher is Mr O'Sullivan.  We can't wait to do lots of fun activities with them this year.    We think it is really cool to get to know some big kids and another teacher at our school.  
We had our first buddy reading session together.   Our buddies read us a library book.   We had to tell our buddy what our name was.  We had to ask our A2 buddy 'what is your name?'  We felt a bit shy but we loved listening to them read to us.
Watch our slideshow and see us reading with A2.  We can't wait to see our buddies again soon!

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Our buddy class did a blog post about reading with us.  

You can view it here!

A2 Buddy Time with E6

T-Shirts

This week we read a story together with Mrs Cooper about t-shirts.
The title of the story was T-Shirts.
The author is Estelle Corney.
The illustrator is Donovan Bixley.

Mrs Cooper helped us to write stories about our very own t-shirts. We are only just learning to write letters and words but we are feeling very proud of our terrific t-shirts that we have hanging in our classroom.

Come and read our superstar stories ...
(use the arrows underneath the slides to slide along to the next t-shirt!)